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Wildfires in Lawksawk

Lawksawk, Myanmar, has had 72 large fires recorded by GWIS since 2016: 232,019 hectares burned inside its boundaries, 45% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 4).

Only fires of 2,000 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Sat 31 Very low 30° · 53 % · 25 km/h
  2. Sun 1 Very low 29° · 52 % · 26 km/h
  3. Mon 2 Very low 30° · 59 % · 19 km/h
  4. Tue 3 Very low 30° · 57 % · 19 km/h
  5. Wed 4 Very low 29° · 58 % · 19 km/h
  6. Thu 5 Very low 30° · 51 % · 25 km/h
  7. Fri 6 Very low 30° · 52 % · 30 km/h
  8. Sat 7 Very low 28° · 62 % · 21 km/h
  9. Sun 8 Very low 26° · 70 % · 26 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The municipality and its fires

Since 2016

232,019
hectares burned
45 %
of its area
72
fires
5,169
km²

How many times has Lawksawk burned?

Lawksawk has burned 72 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lawksawk fire, 16 March 2026, with 4,886 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 4× 17
  3.   18
  4. 5× 19
  5. 7× 20
  6. 6× 21
  7. 6× 22
  8. 3× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 13× 25
  11. 22× 26
72
fires
10
years with fire
232,019
cumulative ha
16 Mar 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 2,000 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in Myanmar →

Fires that entered Lawksawk

  1. 4,886 ha Lawksawk fire, 16 March 2026 where it started 1.0% of the municipality · 5,674 ha in total · 21 days
  2. 1 ha Hopong fire, 15 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,242 ha in total · 13 days
  3. 2,048 ha Lawksawk fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,044 ha in total · 13 days
  4. 4,235 ha Lawksawk fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,219 ha in total · 21 days
  5. 2,953 ha Lawksawk fire, 14 March 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,444 ha in total · 6 days
  6. 6,571 ha Lawksawk fire, 13 March 2026 where it started 1.3% of the municipality · 6,966 ha in total · 25 days
  7. 16,435 ha Lawksawk fire, 1 March 2026 where it started 3.2% of the municipality · 17,068 ha in total · 31 days
  8. 51 ha Ywangan fire, 1 March 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,235 ha in total · 12 days
  9. 2,280 ha Lawksawk fire, 28 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,332 ha in total · 10 days
  10. 1,151 ha Lawksawk fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 0.2% of the municipality · 2,851 ha in total · 11 days
  11. 13,268 ha Lawksawk fire, 27 February 2026 where it started 2.6% of the municipality · 24,421 ha in total · 14 days
  12. 2,627 ha Lawksawk fire, 21 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,616 ha in total · 21 days
  13. 2,893 ha Lawksawk fire, 20 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,871 ha in total · 28 days
  14. 4,092 ha Lawksawk fire, 13 February 2026 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,078 ha in total · 11 days
  15. 2,027 ha Lawksawk fire, 8 February 2026 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,021 ha in total · 15 days
  16. 2,410 ha Lawksawk fire, 5 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 3,110 ha in total · 17 days
  17. 130 ha Hopong fire, February 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,308 ha in total · 20 days
  18. 539 ha Mongkaing fire, February 2026 0.1% of the municipality · 3,531 ha in total · 13 days
  19. 2,972 ha Lawksawk fire, 3 February 2026 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,958 ha in total · 18 days
  20. 2,816 ha Lawksawk fire, 1 February 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,798 ha in total · 26 days
  21. 68 ha Hopong fire, 28 January 2026 0.0% of the municipality · 2,971 ha in total · 20 days
  22. 2,402 ha Lawksawk fire, January 2026 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,396 ha in total · 23 days
  23. 2,953 ha Lawksawk fire, 7 March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 6,905 ha in total · 14 days
  24. 2,072 ha Lawksawk fire, 7 March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,257 ha in total · 22 days
  25. 8,458 ha Hopong fire, 6 March 2025 1.6% of the municipality · 12,822 ha in total · 10 days
  26. 3,433 ha Lawksawk fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,408 ha in total · 22 days
  27. 2,617 ha Lawksawk fire, 6 March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,603 ha in total · 7 days
  28. 2,889 ha Lawksawk fire, 5 March 2025 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,871 ha in total · 16 days
  29. 3,540 ha Lawksawk fire, 5 March 2025 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,712 ha in total · 16 days
  30. 2,598 ha Lawksawk fire, 4 March 2025 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,591 ha in total · 16 days
  31. 828 ha Ywangan fire, 2 March 2025 0.2% of the municipality · 9,954 ha in total · 20 days
  32. 2,077 ha Lawksawk fire, 1 March 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,067 ha in total · 20 days
  33. 1,510 ha Lawksawk fire, 28 February 2025 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,046 ha in total · 14 days
  34. 19,845 ha Lawksawk fire, 20 February 2025 where it started 3.8% of the municipality · 38,375 ha in total · 36 days
  35. 2,023 ha Lawksawk fire, 18 February 2025 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,425 ha in total · 19 days
  36. 2,633 ha Lawksawk fire, March 2024 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,621 ha in total · 18 days
  37. 1,640 ha Hopong fire, March 2024 0.3% of the municipality · 5,373 ha in total · 19 days
  38. 20,092 ha Lawksawk fire, 19 February 2024 where it started 3.9% of the municipality · 36,894 ha in total · 35 days
  39. 497 ha Mongkaing fire, 6 February 2024 0.1% of the municipality · 3,164 ha in total · 22 days
  40. 2,075 ha Lawksawk fire, 4 February 2024 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,070 ha in total · 18 days
  41. 3,590 ha Lawksawk fire, February 2023 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,585 ha in total · 12 days
  42. 3,097 ha Taunggyi fire, January 2023 0.6% of the municipality · 13,906 ha in total · 37 days
  43. 341 ha Hopong fire, January 2023 0.1% of the municipality · 2,812 ha in total · 20 days
  44. 101 ha Mongkaing fire, 11 March 2022 0.0% of the municipality · 2,094 ha in total · 11 days
  45. 2,230 ha Mongkaing fire, 10 March 2022 0.4% of the municipality · 6,072 ha in total · 12 days
  46. 3,005 ha Lawksawk fire, 8 March 2022 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,992 ha in total · 18 days
  47. 2,137 ha Lawksawk fire, 8 March 2022 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,121 ha in total · 13 days
  48. 4,278 ha Lawksawk fire, 3 March 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,261 ha in total · 19 days
  49. 3,861 ha Lawksawk fire, February 2022 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,952 ha in total · 18 days
  50. 3,038 ha Lawksawk fire, 8 March 2021 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,025 ha in total · 19 days
  51. 2,398 ha Lawksawk fire, 4 March 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,390 ha in total · 5 days
  52. 365 ha Hopong fire, February 2021 0.1% of the municipality · 4,250 ha in total · 21 days
  53. 2,640 ha Lawksawk fire, February 2021 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,636 ha in total · 10 days
  54. 1,955 ha Taunggyi fire, 12 January 2021 0.4% of the municipality · 2,672 ha in total · 15 days
  55. 12 ha Taunggyi fire, 10 January 2021 0.0% of the municipality · 7,126 ha in total · 26 days
  56. 2,601 ha Lawksawk fire, 8 March 2020 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,957 ha in total · 20 days
  57. 6 ha Hopong fire, March 2020 0.0% of the municipality · 6,726 ha in total · 12 days
  58. 1,061 ha Mongkaing fire, March 2020 0.2% of the municipality · 2,315 ha in total · 19 days
  59. 2,978 ha Lawksawk fire, 4 March 2020 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 2,965 ha in total · 9 days
  60. 2,058 ha Lawksawk fire, February 2020 where it started 0.4% of the municipality · 2,055 ha in total · 13 days
  61. 3,600 ha Hopong fire, February 2020 0.7% of the municipality · 4,849 ha in total · 21 days
  62. 2,112 ha Taunggyi fire, February 2020 0.4% of the municipality · 11,481 ha in total · 25 days
  63. 1,597 ha Mongkaing fire, 22 March 2019 0.3% of the municipality · 2,385 ha in total · 19 days
  64. 1,361 ha Lawksawk fire, 20 March 2019 where it started 0.3% of the municipality · 2,209 ha in total · 17 days
  65. 3,903 ha Lawksawk fire, 13 March 2019 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 3,888 ha in total · 25 days
  66. 7 ha Hopong fire, March 2019 0.0% of the municipality · 2,200 ha in total · 24 days
  67. 3,316 ha Lawksawk fire, 13 March 2019 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,302 ha in total · 22 days
  68. 4,176 ha Lawksawk fire, 14 March 2017 where it started 0.8% of the municipality · 4,159 ha in total · 21 days
  69. 3,408 ha Lawksawk fire, 7 March 2017 where it started 0.7% of the municipality · 3,542 ha in total · 20 days
  70. 3,192 ha Lawksawk fire, 2 March 2017 where it started 0.6% of the municipality · 3,537 ha in total · 8 days
  71. 2,512 ha Lawksawk fire, February 2017 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,507 ha in total · 11 days
  72. 2,446 ha Lawksawk fire, March 2016 where it started 0.5% of the municipality · 2,874 ha in total · 18 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters come from GWIS (Copernicus, CC BY 4.0), rebuilt from heat detections, and municipal boundaries from geoBoundaries/The Myanmar Analytics Project, USAID (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)). The area per municipality is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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